![]() ![]() There's also an element to these crimes that is sexual, so that needs to be taken into account when watching this. ![]() For instance, you may not see actual bodies, but you will see the garbage bags that contained parts of their bodies. While the movie doesn't necessarily get visually graphic, there are a few really haunting photos in the movie. This is one of those really messed up True Crime docs. Per Wales Online, it was only after Nilsen himself had confessed to the murder in a letter to a British newspaper in 2006, did the killing come to light.TV-MA, mainly because True Crime can get pretty darned grizzly. Nilsen's first victim was not identified for many years. Like Dahmer, Nilsen then abused his victim's dead body. When Nilsen feared that Holmes might leave, he attacked and killed him. As described in "Dennis Nilsen – Conversations with Britain's Most Evil Serial Killer," his victim, Stephen Holmes, had returned to Nilsen's home to drink alcohol. The story of Nilsen's first murder shares many similarities with that of Dahmer. Hicks fought back, but fell unconscious after another blow with the bar: Dahmer then choked him to death with the same object. When Hicks announced that it was time for him to leave, Dahmer struck him with a barbell that he had retrieved from the cellar. I was afraid that I must somehow look different and that my innermost thoughts would be exposed by my nakedness."Īccording to Brian Masters' " The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer," Dahmer's first victim was a man named Steven Hicks, a hitchhiking teenager from Illinois who got into Dahmer's car and went with him back to his home, to talk and drink alcohol - a trap that Dahmer would lay for many of his victims in the years that followed. ![]() As Nilsen told Masters: "I never took a shower, always a bath. Nilsen also strove to keep his homosexuality a secret from those around him, avoiding nudity in front of the other recruits and joining in with homophobic jibes when the occasion called for it. This was an outlet for his sexual urges that he was unable to indulge with his fellow soldiers, who were used to enjoying liaisons with local women. Per Masters, Dahmer found in the sex shops of Frankfurt a place to supply himself with a steady stream of pornography. Nilsen's parents later divorced, and when his grandfather, to whom he was closest, died, Nilsen, who characterized himself as a naturally unhappy child, found himself adrift.īoth were stationed in West Germany, though Nilsen's service began in 1964 (per "Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen") and Dahmer's in 1979 - a year after the latter had committed his first murder, according to Brian Masters' "The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer." Yet another commonality between the two killers was that they took non-combat roles within the military Dahmer was trained and deployed as a medic, while Nilsen was an army chef.įor both men, the military was also a background in which their closet homosexuality came to the fore. His father, Olav, was absent throughout his infancy, and the future serial killer had an unfriendly rivalry with his brother, Olav Jr. In this milieu, Dahmer began to collect and experiment with the bones and other remains of dead animals, employing bleaching techniques taught to him by his father.Īccording to "Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen," Nilsen, who would become known as The Muswell Hill Murderer after the crimes he committed in the London area, had a similarly difficult childhood in his native Scotland. The young Dahmer's childhood was a difficult one, according to "The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer." His father, a chemist, was often overloaded with work or away from home, while his mother, who Dahmer's father physically abused in the boy's presence, suffered from severe depression: relying on medication that kept her in a sedative state for much of Dahmer's youth. ![]()
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